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Originally Posted by localbest
But in the whole of indonesia, only the chinese in riau island like batam, tanjong pinang, balai, batu, etc can understand and speak fluent mandarin. The reason is because these places are able to receive spore channel 8. The effect of TV broadcast is very powerful.  |
other than riau island, there are many place else where chinese still speak chinese dialect such as hokkien, teochew, hakka.. such as, medan, north sumatra (majority hokkien speaking). jambi (teochew speaking), bangka (hakka speaking). west kalimantan (west borneo,, teochew & hakka speaking).. even in aceh, there are some cantonese speaking.
basically anywhere as long as it's not from java. ha ha..